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• We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.

  Dalai Lama

  Years, People, Trying

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.134, Univ of California Press

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• What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dark, Night, Breathtaking

  "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1997.

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• The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Strong, Loss, Men

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• Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Awakening, New Earth, Knows

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.20, Penguin

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• Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

  Henry George

  Dream, Laissez Faire Capitalism, Noble

  Henry George (1886). “Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth [and] the Remedy”

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• I am very sorry to know and hear how unreverently that most precious jewel, the Word of God, is disputed, rhymed, sung and jangled in every ale-house and tavern, contrary to the true meaning and doctrine of the same.

  King Edward VIII

  Sorry, Jewels, House

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• The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

  Nelson Henderson

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  "Under Whose Shade". Book by Wesley Henderson, 1982.

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• The true meaning of an artist/actor is opening my heart to the audience and at the same time opening their heart. Through sharing my pain I can possibly heal your pain, there is no other feeling like it, money doesn't compare. This is the true meaning of Art. I will attempt to do it till my dying day.

  Richard Cabral

  Art, Pain, Feelings

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We, this nation of ours, could be the richest nation in the world. We could be the freest nation in the world - but only if the arts are alive and flourishing can we experience the true meaning of our freedom, and know the full glory of the human spirit.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Art, Alive, World

  Nixon, Richard M. (1972). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1971”, p.676, Best Books on

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  The true meaning of the precepts is that one should refrain not only from drinking alcohol but also from getting drunk on nirvana.

  Bassui Tokusho

  Buddhist, Drinking, Drunk

  "Mud and Water: The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui".

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• There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance ­and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.

  Abba Hillel Silver

  Lying, Adventure, Evil

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• The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Birthday, Years, Giving

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• The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it; or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it. for when this reason ceased, the law itself ought likewise to cease with it.

  William Blackstone

  Law, Dubious, Way

  William Blackstone (2016). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: Of the Rights of People”, p.47, Oxford University Press

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• Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Letters, Court

  The Federalist no. 22 (1788)

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• Love makes us instinctively reach out to God and other people. Lust, on the other hand, is anything but godly and celebrates self-indulgence. Love comes with open hands and open heart; lust comes with only an open appetite. These are just some of the reasons that prostituting the true meaning of love-either with imagination or another person-is so destructive. It destroys that which is second only to our faith in God-namely, faith in those we love. It shakes the pillars of trust upon which present-or future-love is built, and it takes a long time to rebuild that trust when it is lost.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Heart, Godly, Love Is

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• I question and soul-search constantly into myself to be as certain as I can that I am fulfilling the true meaning of my work, that I am maintaining my sense of purpose, that I am holding fast to my ideals, that I am guiding my people in the right direction.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  People, Soul, Maintaining

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Mystics knew how to channel grace through prayer and they knew the power of that. They knew how to receive guidance through reflection and contemplation; they knew how to share the gift of illumination with each other. These are great gifts of life and profound grace that we are capable of providing for each other and the world. This is what it means to be a mystic without a monastery. You make a commitment to your own interior illumination and through that discover the "sacred" part of your "contract" and the true meaning of your highest potential.

  Caroline Myss

  Prayer, Mean, Commitment

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• Christmas: It's the only religious holiday that's also a federal holiday. That way, Christians can go to their services, and everyone else can sit at home and reflect on the true meaning of the separation of church and state.

  Samantha Bee

  Christmas, Christian, Religious

  "The Daily Show", www.imdb.com.

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• This element of surprise or mystery — the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called — is of great importance in a plot. It occurs through a suspension of the time-sequence; a mystery is a pocket in time, and it occurs crudely, as in "Why did the queen die?" and more subtly in half-explained gestures and words, the true meaning of which only dawns pages ahead. Mystery is essential to a plot, and cannot be appreciated without intelligence.

  E. M. Forster

  Queens, Marching On, Appreciate

  "Aspects Of the Novel".

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• A close contact with nature has been a focus of my life since childhood and has been my inspiration both professionally and personally. I believe that for most of us, most of the time, it is in the everyday experience of beauty, certainly in nature and in music, that we sense a heaven half-revealed and come closest to the true meaning of reality.

  Densey Clyne

  Beauty, Nature, Believe

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• My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.

  Charlene Tilton

  Daughter, Mother, Caring

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• By introducing you to yourself it enables you to discover for yourself the true meaning of life and thus enrich every moment of it. Such self-discovery can lead to greater understanding of fellow-beings and therefore to true love.

  Venkatesananda Saraswati

  Discovery, Self, Understanding

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• Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life now... and come to face the truth of your self. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Thinking, Mirrors

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• I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  Speech at Civil Rights March in Washington, 28 Aug. 1963, in New York Times 29 Aug. 1963, p. 21

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• We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.

  Anne Rice

  Hero, Shallow

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